Waldschrat

joined 7 months ago
[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we please stop coming up with words that describe that we do not do a thing like it is not normal? Just like having to call yourself an atheist because you do not believe. You should call yourself a theist if you believe, because you actively do it. Call yourself what you are, do, or see fit, not what you are not.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Now do another 10 or 20 parties more and maybe america could finally become a democratic country.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well we went full circle. YouTube and Netflix killed the tv because they were young rebels that challenged status quo and had no ads, and ads on tv went very long. Now YouTube, Netflix and all others just went to shit because of annoying and long ads, or paying extra to skip ads, gathering of usage data, spying on users, selling data, censoring, and building huge monopolies. Time for the next thing.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I get that some things like screen resolution and basic stuff is needed, however most websites don’t need to know how many ram I have, or which CPU I use and so on. I would wish for an opt-in on this topics: So only make the bare minimum available and ask the user, when more is needed. For example playing games in the browser, for that case it could be useful to know how much ram is available, however for most other things it is not.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It would be nice to hammer a manually created fingerprint into the browser and share that fingerprint around. When everyone has the same fingerprint, no one can be uniquely identified. Could we make such a thing possible?

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But why would any browser accept access to those metadata so freely? I get that programming languages can find out about the environment they are operating in, but why would a browser agree to something like reading installed fonts or extensions without asking the user first? I understand why Chrome does this, but all of the mayor ones and even Firefox?